Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 18

The transformation of a nation is impossible without God’s grace
Sunday Adelaja
Everyone just wants to be like that Somebody else. Ironically, that Somebody wishes to just be like everyone else. If this is achieved, however, individuality is annihilated.
Ufuoma Apoki
I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I’ve thought and found all on my own— on my own, not through you.
Helen Oyeyemi
When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance...that is how a chameleon behaves, the territory changes it, and it adapts to the changes.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Errors were not only meant to be committed by fools.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A wise man lays up treasures in the Kingdom of our Father, so as to live a happy eternal life
Sunday Adelaja
Actions, not knowledge, bring result.
Sunday Adelaja
Pondering over your actions is a practical way of helping yourself in the battle against sin.
Sunday Adelaja
You can’t keep doing the same thing and expect a new result.
Sunday Adelaja
We need to learn to seek God’s hand in everything and understand Him through His actions in your life
Sunday Adelaja
In any sphere of our life, if we learn to combine our prayers with actions, we will have victory
Sunday Adelaja
The sphere of influence is noticed if your actions reflect the virtues of the kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
In every bad situation we have to see Satan’s motives behind a person’s actions
Sunday Adelaja
Go gave us His authority, He gave us His wisdom, He is waiting for our actions
Sunday Adelaja
God gave us His authority, He gave us His wisdom, He is waiting for our actions
Sunday Adelaja
We can only bring changes by taking a position, and by our actions
Sunday Adelaja
If there are difficulties on your way, be thankful for them because they will test and refine you as fire does to gold and if you will overcome, you will come out a winner, wizard and overcomer.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The Holy Spirit is given to us in order for us to be like fire, when we speak in tongues.
Sunday Adelaja
The fire of revival that destroys all principalities and powers also defeats and demolishes the oppressor – the devil
Sunday Adelaja
The fire of revival supernaturally destroys all the destructive tendencies in the country
Sunday Adelaja
For the fire consumes all but the arsonist.
Wole Soyinka
The eyes of a nation (living godly) like this shall see the King of kings and the Lord of lords in all his beauty. Meaning salvation and redemption shall be readily available in abundance for the people of that land.
Sunday Adelaja
Women love with their ears, men with their eyes.
Sunday Adelaja
The heart, so small, yet, able to grow so large, sometimes always wants to take or give more than can be managed successfully. Thanks to the rational head, though, it's always there to save her from taking more than she can contain. . . . or so it thinks.
Ufuoma Apoki
The seed of good reaps the harvest of goodness.
Sunday Adelaja
Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person's skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them.
Chigozie Obioma
Success causes others to be jealous and hate.
Sunday Adelaja
A kingdom established on hatred is a function of denial of God
Sunday Adelaja
Destructive force of hatred is a virus
Sunday Adelaja
True worship is God-centered
Sunday Adelaja
True satisfaction comes when the pursuit of purpose in the kingdom of God comes first
Sunday Adelaja
To Embrace The True Purpose Of The Kingdom Is To Have A Changed Live
Sunday Adelaja
Blackmail threats are e-mails from madmen.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Boasting about badness without actively involving in badness is mere madness.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Imperfects are funny, lovable and perfect to be happy. Perfects are appreciated and left alone everytime!!!.
Nelson Jack
God created us so that His love, beauty, perfection, and harmony would be seen through us.
Sunday Adelaja
Never stop developing and perfecting your abilities, even if you have already achievedsignificant, visible results.
Sunday Adelaja
Being always right is not always right in the wrong places.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Excluding the God of providence in your life’s configuration and design is like removing the thermostat from a thermodynamic system.
Ikechukwu Joseph
If we don’t fight lawlessness, it prevails.
Sunday Adelaja
Never try to prove that you are right or superior. Let the Lord Himself fight for you
Sunday Adelaja
We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
When I die (body) please lay me on stage just as I am. Do not put on makeup and jewelries on me as I repented from doing them when alive. Lay me as I am, so family and friends will see how worthless this body is without the Spirit . Deceive no one with my body on my funeral day. If i do it not when alive, DO IT NOT WHEN AM NOT IN THIS BODY. THIS WORLD IS NOT MY HOME.
Mary Tornyenyor
As Ossie Jones crept out of his body and into the mist, his heart murmured till it was silent.
Biyi Bandele-Thomas
The betterment of a community directly depends on the betterment of lives in that Community.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
When you get caught up on other peoples' problems, solve them with caution so you don't suffer the excessive burdens of regrets.
Darmie O-Lujon
My mother always tells me that anyone who gets enjoyment from other people's misery will eventually get the greatest discomfort from his or her own miseries.
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.
Chigozie Obioma
Make a decision to perform something great, something that requires skill, something special for the Kingdom of God.
Sunday Adelaja
Love that is founded on decision is stable and strong and it will endure any trial
Sunday Adelaja
Personal Responsibility is an act of being responsible for results and consequences of your decisions, actions and in-actions in a given situation or circumstance.
Sunday Adelaja
The decisions of citizens either in matters of private business or political life of the nation, are directly related to the prevailing value system of the nation
Sunday Adelaja
Lack of sound mind and judgement – the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions, is a matter of frustration and disillusionment to God
Sunday Adelaja
Nobody can truely become a leader, unless he has performed feats for God. It is only possible to ascend to spiritual heights in the Kingdom of God, if you fully exert yourself.
Sunday Adelaja
Without longsuffering, it is impossible to be a successful leader.
Sunday Adelaja
When you become ministers, teach your people how to think independently without relying on you for instructions. Don't be a leader who tries to control people. Do not limit your people, but provide a creative environment for them to take the initiative
Sunday Adelaja
The pace of a leader determines the pace of his follower.
Sunday Adelaja
A leader should not be a dictator.
Sunday Adelaja
A leader should accurately discern deceit.
Sunday Adelaja